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Date:      Fri, 21 Jan 2011 16:43:03 +0100
From:      Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Alexandr Rybalko <ray@dlink.ua>
Cc:        freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org, freebsd-geom@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: GEOM_LZMA
Message-ID:  <20110121154303.GG1698@garage.freebsd.pl>
In-Reply-To: <20110121154636.f10529d8.ray@dlink.ua>
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On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 03:46:36PM +0200, Alexandr Rybalko wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 14:02:32 +0100
> Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> wrote:
>=20
> >> On 20/01/2011 16:51, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> >> > Well, creating a generic geom_compress module shouldn't increase the
> >> > size by all that much. It's just a few function pointers that point =
at
> >> > the decompression class. The rest of the format is the same, right?
> >> > (ie, how it's broken into chunks, the chunks are separately
> >> > compressed, etc.)
> >>=20
> >> I think they are talking about the size of the kernel :)
>=20
> Exact match :)
>=20
> But really, gzip in most cases already compiled into kernel (my not) and =
anyway have small footprint.
>=20
> So I done join GEOM_UZIP + GEOM_ULZMA module, called GEOM_ULZMA yet.=20
>=20
> Module name open for discussion :)
> Since they must have short and understandable name.
> Maybe GEOM_COMPR,
> maybe full GEOM_COMPRESSION,
> maybe GEOM_REDUCE,
> etc.

What's wrong with GEOM_COMPRESS? We already have equally long or longer
class names:

	GEOM_LINUX_LVM
	GEOM_MOUNTVER
	GEOM_MULTIPATH
	GEOM_SUNLABEL

--=20
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